Working-time reduction and employment: experiences in Europe and economic policy recommendations

The paper seeks to evaluate the evidence on the employment effectsof the collective working-time reductions in Europe over thepast 20 years. While theoretical analyses produce contradictoryassessments, most empirical studies show positive employmenteffects but take insufficient account of these conditions underwhich the reductions in working time were implemented. Theseconditions for the success of collective working-time reductionsinclude an active training policy designed to minimise skillshortages in the labour market, the modernisation of work organisation,wage increases in conjunction with productivity gains and amore equal income distribution.     

Services inflation dynamics and persistence puzzle in Brazil: a time-varying parameter approach

This article analyses services inflation dynamics in Brazil, focusing on the Services Inflation Persistence Puzzle, for monthly data from January 2004 to February 2016. We apply a time-varying parameter (TVP) approach, via a Kalman filter, to estimate hybrid Phillips curves and compare inflation inertia for tradable goods and services inflation. Aggregate Brazilian Extended Consumer Price Index inflation serves as a benchmark. To justify the TVP analysis, parameter instability and structural change tests are implemented, based on OLS and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) frameworks. The main results are as follows: (i) the TVP approach is relevant due to observed instability in some parameters estimated; (ii) inflation expectation coefficients are higher than lagged inflation in all calculations, but inflation inertia is not negligible at all; (iii) services inflation persistence ranges from 27 to 36%, whereas tradable goods inflation persistence ranges from 36 to 47%, providing evidence of the Services Inflation Persistence Puzzle in Brazil; (iv) from 2009 onwards an increase in one percentage point in real wages raises monthly services inflation rate by 0.02 to 0.03 percentage point; (v) there is evidence that cost-push pressures, due to wage increases in the service sector, are more important to explain services inflation than demand pressures from early 2009 to mid-2014.     

信贷市场非均衡对需求者与供给者的影响

信贷市场非均衡将改变企业与金融机构的行为 ,降低资源配置效率 ,增加企业与银行的经营成本。“超贷”与“惜贷”都是信贷市场非均衡现象 ,不以利润最大化为目标是导致“超贷”、“惜贷”现象的根本原因。     

论《全明散曲》所收散曲的体式及其特征

谢伯阳先生主编的<全明散曲>,展示了明代散曲的全貌,是目前收录明代散曲最全的集子.然而<全明散曲>中收录的明代散曲体式却鲜为人知,这里分三部分叙述:名称与分类;宫调与曲牌;用韵与语词,旨在揭示明代散曲体式的概貌.     

我国会计行业如何面对WTO的挑战

随着世界贸易组织 (WTO)的大门向我国打开 ,一个重大的现实课题赫然摆在我国会计理论界和实务界的面前。加入WTO会给我国会计带来哪些挑战 ?我们将如何应付 ?本文就此问题提出观点。     

中国现代法律文化建设之程序公正

法律文化现代化是中国法治建设的重要组成部分,现代法律文化建设受到诸方面因素的影响。程序公正以及与程序公正相关的法律制度在我国传统法律文化中不健全、不完善,是制约我国现代法律文化建设的主要因素之一。从而提出程序公正对建设现代法律文化的重要性,摒弃传统法律文化重实体轻程序的观念,不断完善程序公正理论,从而推动现代法律文化的建设和社会主义法治国家的全面实现。     

增值税“扩围”改革对现代服务业发展的影响分析——以上海市“营改增”试点政策为例

本文从分析现代服务业在经济增长中的作用及现行流转税制结构对现代服务业发展的影响入手,论述了现代服务业“营改增”的必要性。以上海市“营改增”试点政策为例,分析了增值税“扩围”改革对增值税一般纳税人和小规模纳税人的影响,以及对服务贸易的影响,提出了上海市试点政策对增值税“扩围改革”的几点启示。     

长株潭两型社会建设中失地农民培训问题探析

随着长株潭两型社会建设的不断推进,这三个地区大量的农村集体土地被征用,大量农民加入到失地农民的队伍中。通过培训帮助失地农民掌握一门技能,提高他们的生存及就业、创业能力,是社会和谐发展的需要,是两型社会建设的客观要求,也是其自身可持续发展的需要。目前,对失地农民的培训工作还处于探索阶段,有必要加强和改进。长株潭两型社会建设中失地农民的培训工作,应立足于长株潭两型社会这一背景,增强失地农民就业和创业的竞争力。     

试论政府网络新闻发言人的角色——兼及政府网络新闻发言人与传统政府新闻发言人的异同

政府网络新闻发言人在一些地方已经开始试水,但是学术界对这一问题的研究还没有及时跟上。政府网络新闻发言人必然有其存在的必然性,政府网络新闻发言人与传统政府新闻发言人是否有区别,如果有又在何处？它在当前及其以后该怎样发展,应当承担起何种角色以及如何有效的发挥其作用？对于这些问题还有待于探讨。